ROSACES 99 



R. tpmentosus Borck. Stems rather feeble, channelled, glandular, with 

 small prickles. Leaves covered with whitish velvety tomentum beneath, with 

 3-5 deeply toothed leaflets, the terminal one obovate-rhomboidal, acute. Flower- 

 ing branch angular, slender, with numerous small hooked prickles. Inflorescence 

 elongated, narrow, more or less acicular-glandular, with ascending peduncles. 

 Sepals tomentose. Petals narrow, yellowish-white. Stamens white, equalling 

 the styles. 



Hill-sides, road-sides, and dry places, common. May-July. 



R. caesius L. Dewberry. Stems prostrate, glaucous ; prickles unequal, 

 rather slender, setaceous. Leaflets usually 3, rhomboidal and coarsely toothed, 

 green on both sides ; sepals appressed, densely tomentose outside. Flowers white, 

 in loose panicles. Drupes 2-5 large, glaucous, very acid. Very polymorphic, 

 and hybridising freely, as stated above. 



Woods, hedges, and waste places, common. May-June. 



R. IdaetlS L. Raspberry. Stems shrubby with many suckers ; prickles 

 slender, straight, but curved in flowering shoots. Leaflets 3-5, ovate or elliptic, 

 acuminate, white and hoary beneath. Flowers drooping, petals short, linear- 

 obovate. Drupes deciduous, many, yellow or rarely red. 



Woods in the montane and sub-Alpine region of Alpes-Marit. July. 



GEUM L. 



Q. urbanum L. Common Avens. Plant hairy, 1-2 ft. high, erect. Root- 

 leaves long petioled, interruptedly pinnate, terminal leaflet very broad, obscurely 

 lobed, crenate ; lateral leaflets oblong, sessile ; cauline leaves variable. Stipules 

 foliaceous, lobed and toothed. Flowers yellow, erect, at least half inch across. 

 Peduncle slender. Achenes hispid, spreading; awn with a short glabrous hook 

 at tip. 



Shady, grassy places in the hills and mountains. May-July. 



Q. silvaticum Ponrr. Wood Avens. About a foot high. Leaves silky, 

 the lower ones long petioled, lyrate-pinnatisect with a very large terminal lobed 

 and toothed segment. Stem-leaves small, toothed. Stipules oval, acute, dentate. 

 Flowers yellow rather small, few ; petals broad, deeply emarginate, with hardly 

 any claw, twice length of calyx. Styles jointed near the middle. Achenes large, 

 oval, with awn glabrous at tip. 



Woods and pastures. May-June. 



Q. rivale L. Water Avens. Hairy, leafy, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves variable, 

 with more segments than in G. urbanum, more toothed and larger lateral 

 segments. Flowers i-i in. diameter, drooping, dull purple tinted with orange, 

 petals with long claw, as long as calyx. Styles jointed. Calyx lobes reddish-brown. 



Near water in the Maritime Alps. June-July. 



Dryas octopetala L. does not descend to within our limits in the Maritime 

 Alps. 



FRAQARIA L. STRAWBERRY. 



F. vesca L. Common Strawberry. Plant with numerous long stolons and 

 scales between the leafy nodes. Radical leaves petioled, leaflets obliquely 

 ovate or oblong, coarsely toothed or serrate, upper leaflets usually sessile ; 

 pedicles with silky appressed hairs. Stipules scarious. Scapes axillary. 

 Flowers white, in irregular cymes. Calyx-lobes spreading, acute. Fruit red, 

 covered with carpels, adhering to the calyx. 



Woods and shady places. April-June. 



F. collina Ehrh. Stolons few and furnished with a scale only between the 

 parent plant and the first rooting rosette. Scapes rather shorter, very hairy, 

 naked or with 1-2 leafy bracts. Leaves smaller, very silky beneath. Flowers 

 white or cream-coloured, larger than the last (15-20 mm.). Calyx-segments 

 adhering to the fruit. Fruit often whitish, with few carpels on lower part, very 

 adhesive to the calyx. 



Woods in the hills and hilly slopes. April-June. 



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